Browse by Subject "Libraries and state --United States"

Smith, Hannis S.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

n approaching this subject, there is a strong temptation
to deal at length with library budgets and budget management.
The literature of this subject is extensive, and, while
it is of uneven quality, there is a considerable ...

Martin, Lowell A.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

We all know that the Library Services Act and new national
standards for public libraries came on the scene about
the same time. In a sense the standards established goals,
and LSA provided fresh, new means to achieve ...

McDonough, Roger H.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

To know where our state libraries are going, it is important
first to know where they have been and where they are
now. Without going into this exhaustively, let me develop with
you for a few moments some of the things ...

Leigh, Carma Russell(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

I was asked (and how could I have thought last summer
I could do it?) to analyze and forecast the different directions
library system development resulting from the Library Services
Act has taken and is likely to take ...

Blasingame, Ralph(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

To attempt some guess as to the futurewhatever the
context requires that one pay some service to the past. The
strength of the position which the public library occupies today
and upon which its future will be based is ...

Lorenz, John G.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

It is difficult to overestimate the effect of the Library
Services Act in improving the status and support of the library
services unit in the Office of Education. A brief look at the
past will serve to support this ...

Krettek, Germaine(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

Preparing this paper has been a delightful task but also
a frustrating experience. In reading background material on
federal aid for libraries, in talking to Ralph Dunbar and Paul
Howard, who were deeply involved in all ...

Monypenny, Phillip(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

In my career with state libraries, I begin to feel rather
like James B. Conant in his empyrean reviews of education in
the United States. I would imagine that Conant is one of the
most disliked men in America. He is ...

Prentiss, S. Gilbert(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

"Research" is rapidly becoming one of the hardestworking
words in our contemporary vocabulary. In our daily
references to research we may mean anything from the assignment
a second grader carries home from school to a ...

Lancour, Harold(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1961)

It is customary at Allerton Park conferences for one
of the members of the faculty or the staff to give a summary
of what transpired, and this time this happened to be my job.
You can well understand that this isn't a ...